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Even the sounds of this game just bring me back.

Kenny Kawaguchi could fly in that wheelchair and was one of only two players in the game with four stars in pitching.ĭid reading these names give you that wave of nostalgia? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Very woke and ahead of its time guys, good work.ĭon’t for one second think I’m hating on my boy though. Just like those math textbook problems where everyone is a different ethnicity, the game included a guy in a wheelchair. Angela Delvecchio could pitch and her brother Tony looked like a young Henry Hill.īackyard Baseball was even ahead of its time in terms of politically correct representation. If you had Pete Wheeler, aka the white Rickey Henderson, you knew a double was gonna bring him home from first. Pablo wasn’t the only memorable name though. He had talent, but it would have declined over time because he was already fat as shit at the age of 5. Nowadays, he probably upgraded from chewing gum to tobacco and works in a mail-room. When that fat ass hobbled his way to the plate -bat dragging behind him – you knew a dinger was coming. I guarantee that there is nobody on this earth who played that game and doesn’t remember Pablo Sanchez.

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In addition to the pro characters – which included Barry Bonds, Vlad Guerrero, Chipper Jones, Derek Jeter and Jimmy Rollins among others Backyard Baseball had some truly memorable originals. If Backyard Baseball didn’t lay the foundation, would we even be baseball fans today? *hits blunt*

Released just a couple years before the Mitchell report, it got kids into baseball just before a really turbulent time for the sport. It couldn’t have come at a more crucial time, either. The real life pro characters served as an introduction to the league for a generation of fans. My brother and I called it a “computer game” and a console was a totally alien concept until a couple years later.īackyard Baseball really was a classic game. It’s so old that video game wasn’t even a term I knew.

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Watching the juice-box go down taught pitcher fatigue, I learned how to mix speedsters with power and it was also the first video game I ever got hooked on. I was six years old when the game came out and clearly remember that it providing my earliest feel for baseball. Now, you wanna talk 2000’s nostalgia? Backyard Baseball will provide an enormous wave of it. As Ichiro walks away, Albert Pujols is now the only remaining active player from Backyard Baseball 2003. If you were born in the 90’s, the retirement of Ichiro hits in a different way. Ichiro Was One Of Two Remaining Active Players From Backyard Baseball 2003 When combining both his NPB and MLB stats, Ichiro is the all-time leader in hits with 4,367 and is a member of the major league 3,000 hit club. Ichiro also proved to the world that the NPB is a legitimate league and that image continues to this day. His success paved the way for other NPB players – such as Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish and Kenta Maeda to get large MLB contracts right off the bat while delivering All Star caliber production. What Ichiro’s career has meant to Japanese baseball is unrivaled. Ichiro Suzuki will retire after a 19-year career in MLB.

Players in backyard baseball 2003